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Blender Splash Screens 2.04 – 2.49

Blender was originally developed as an in-house tool for a commercial animation company in 1995. In 1998, it distributed as a shareware program and it became open source since 2002.

Interested to know more about the history of Blender’s development? Here is a gallery of Blender splash screens from version 2.04 to 2.49 captured by running the programs downloaded from Blender official directory. If you are looking for splash screens of Blender newer versions, you can find it on Blender Splash Screens 2.5 – 2.6.

Blender 2.04 (October 2000)
This was the earliest release that has a splash screen I can find on the web.

Blender 2.25 (October 2002, aka Blender Publisher 2.25)
This version was a NaN (Not a Number) commercial release, available as a freeware download.

Blender 2.26 (February 2003)
This was the first open source release.

Blender 2.27 (May 2003)
International Language support for Blender interface was added to this release.

Blender 2.28 (July 2003)
Notable feature in this release was playback of audio can be synced in 3D window and Sequence editor.

Blender 2.28c (September 2003)
Metaball editing and environment maps have been improved in this release.

Blender 2.30 (October 2003)
Blender’s interface has been greatly improved in this release to make navigating and learning Blender easier.

Blender 2.31 (November 2003)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

Blender 2.31a (December 2003)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.